Top 41 Quotes by Laurence Sterne

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.